If you don’t play video games that much, RPG stands for Role Playing Game.

RPG games work as follows. At the start of the game you choose for youself a basic character with some basic skills and abilities. Most RPG games are fantasy based, so you’d get something like an Elf, that has a greater initial speed, agility and is good with bow and arrows, a dwarf which is strong and is good with axes, humans that are sort of in between, or whatever the case may be.

You then proceed on your adventure through the game’s virtual world accepting challenges and helping people while earning money to buy your character equipment and keep him alive, and at the same time getting experience from the challenges he/she faces improving the their abilities.

These improved abilities through experience and increased money then enable you to accomplish ever more difficult and lucrative challenges.

Isn’t this the primary basis for real life personal development?

One cannot go from never exercising and being unfit to rigorously exercising everyday to accomplish the expert personal fitness straight away. We need to take it step by step. Build your skills and abilities up from the beginner level you currently are to the expert level you want to be at.

If you’ve ever played the game The Sims you’ll know what I mean.

So lets try this, pretend you are an RPG character and you start your game in Life. You have some basic starting abilities and skills, and you can follow a map of different skills you can acquire and what is required for you to achieve them and what you will be able to do once you’ve achieved them.

You may want to take examples and inspiration from The Sims as it is most resembles real life that the rest of the fantasy RPG games out there.You can give yourself rewards for reaching the next skill level in each category and penalize yourself for going down skill level. Make it fun.

I’m going to write down my RPG character and game rule, and I’d like you to try the same and share it with us.

I’m cutting this one close. I’ve just come back from the Cape Town 27 Dinner. This is a morph from the geek dinner concept, but check out the link and if you’re in the Cape Town or Johannesburg area, log your name in the wiki and join us. It’s an awesome event, where you get to meet and chat with some great people around dinner.
It’s nearly midnight for me, so I wanted to get the quote of the night out before it’s too late, otherwise it’ll be a quote of tomorrow morning.
So, here it is. It’s a bit overused quote, but oh so true and very important.

Imagination is more important than knowledge…
- Albert Einstein